I'm writing this while taking a break from a particularly arduous experimentation with Apple's iMovie '08 program. Despite being billed as extremely user friendly for the casual home filmmaker, I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to do things that I think should be pretty basic. Basically, I can't make heads or tails of it, which is ironic because I was trained on much more sophisticated editing software during my time in film school at an extremely prestigious public university, known for i
You were told here about a study published in the Californian Journal of Health Promotion that argues California should lower its drinking age for beer and wine to 18 and set up a system of low-alcohol bars. Mike Males, the study's author and senior researcher at the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, based that finding on statistical analysis that suggests such a move would reduce violent deaths among 18-20 year-olds by 9 percent.
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Ho-hum, another first day of classes for the UC system, another student/faculty/staff walkout over budget cuts, tuition hikes and work furloughs. The photo roll above from UC Irvine is not only less inspiring than the ones from bastions of rabble-rousing UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, but even bass ackwards UC Riverside's.
UC RIVERSIDE!!!But UCI still managed to trump the other nine UC campuses on Day One when it came to the Forbidden Dance of Dissent . . .
